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Brother of former Hamas hostage goes missing in Israel

Ashgara Mengistu’s brother, Avera, was held in Gaza for more than a decade after entering the Strip in a state of mental distress

Holocaust Memorial Day: One man’s mission to capture the faces of survivors for eternity

Portrait photographer John Balsom was accustomed to snapping celebrities – until, as Lianne Kolirin writes, he developed a devotion to taking pictures of those who lived through the Holocaust

Fewer than 200,000 Shoah survivors left as world prepares for 81st Holocaust Memorial Day

Out of the 196,000 still alive, around half live in Israel, while 17 per cent call Western Europe home and 16 per cent live in the US

Lithuania is ‘ready to face its uncomfortable past’ says educator at its vast new Lost Shtetl Museum

It has become the Baltic state’s largest major museum dedicated to the history of Lithuanian Jewry and Shoah education

Exclusive: Days after October 7, NEU teachers shared lesson plan asking pupils if they would ‘fight back’ if they lived in Gaza

Teaching material appeared to justify the Hamas atrocities, Jewish leaders said

How the Shoah’s moral power is weaponised against Jews – and why Western leaders must fight it

This is the text of a speech delivered at the Holocaust Education Trust, warning that the distortion and inversion of the Holocaust is enabling a resurgence of antisemitism, with grave consequences for democratic societies

This is Iran’s October 7 – and the West must act now

The response to the regime’s massacres must be concrete: severe sanctions, asset freezes, the closure of embassies and an end to the indulgent fiction that this is a normal state with which business can continue

‘Never again’ is a more urgent message than ever

It is increasingly difficult to reconcile the language of remembrance with the reality facing Jewish communities today

High Court denies post-mortems in nursery baby death probe

Charedi rioters have clashed with police in Jerusalem for a second day as they protest the alleged ‘desecration’ of the infants’ bodies

Netanyahu accepts invitation to sit on Board of Peace

Israel had previously criticised the makeup of the Board’s subordinate committees, following the inclusion of Turkish and Qatari officials

Labour councillor behind Maccabi fan ban tipped to take control of Birmingham

Party figures warn that Waseem Zaffar may be poised to take over as city council leader after May election

Sinai hit the heights in Maccabi final

Israel’s Eurovision entry Noam Bettan ‘honoured to be the voice of our people’ on world stage

Heading to Eurovision will be like ‘entering the lion’s den’ but the singer promised to ‘give my all’ for Israel

Footballing dads can show off skills at new tournament

Newcomers Real Masmid in touching distance of the title

Challah, humour, the Holocaust and me

John Nathan meets a writer-performer whose latest show is inspired by her encounters with Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Cohen – and being the daughter of a Shoah survivor